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E. T. CALDICOTT.

CHILD'S TOY.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 12. I916.

Patented Apr. 24, 1917.

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Application filed. Gctober 12, 1916.

To all whom/2'1, may concern;

Be it known that I, EDWIN TEARLE CALDI- COTT, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at 11 Quenington Mansions, Rostrevor Road, Fulham, in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in or in Connection with Childrens Toys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to childrens toys and has relation to toys of the kind in which pictures or representations of objects of everyday life are grouped or arranged to form a scene, in miniature, of some particular place, locality, natural objects or the like, such as a farm yard scene, the sea front of a watering place, or a zoo.

In order that the invention may be clearly and readily understood, reference will now be made to the accompanying drawings on which, Figure 1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2 is asectional elevation of toys of the kind herein referred to and in accordance with this invention.

In carrying out this invention, the pictures or representations are grouped or arranged upon a base 1 of suitable shape and size coated with a substance at present sold commercially under the registered trade mark Plasticine that is rendered and maintained more or less sticky or tacky by the addition thereto of a certain amount of a substance at present sold commercially under the registered trade mark Vaseline, or glycerin. The pictures or representations 3 are not provided, as has heretofore been the case, with bases or other special means of support for maintaining them in a more or less vertical attitude, but are, in accordance with this invention, so maintained by the Plasticine on or against which the lower edge of each picture or representation is pressed. The Plasticine covering the base 1 may be of more than one color, the colors employed being appropriate to the scenes which it is intended to build up. For instance, if a seaside view be intended, the colors of the Plasticine would be blue for the water and yellow for the sand. V] hen the scene is provided with a background 4, it will generally be necessary to provide special means for its support, as, unless it is relatively light in weight, the Plasticine would be insuflicient to main- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2-1, 191 7 Serial No. 125,214.

tain it in a vertical attitude. These means may be secured to the base 1 or to the background a or may be separate and distinct from either.

In the arrangement illustrated, the base 1 is in the form of a tray, although it may be of any other convenient form and members 5 are secured to the shorter sides or edges 6 thereof so as to form, with one of the longer sides or edges 7, slots or grooves into which the background 4 is inserted. The tray may be provided with a suitable lid or cover, and form a receptacle for the background 4: and pictures or representations 3, when not in use. Grooved blocks of wood may also be employed, the lower edge of the background being inserted in the grooves. Any other suitable means may be used.

What I claim is 1. A toy of the character in which representations of objects are grouped to form a scene, comprising a base, plastic material of an approximately-maintained tacky nature on said base, and representations adapted to be pressed against and held in approximately-upright position by said plastic material.

2. A toy of the character substantially as described, comprising a base member provided with a coating of plastic material, characterized by the capability to hold relatively light objects in position approximately perpendicular to the base by the contact of edges of said objects with said material, and objects adapted to be pressed onto the plastic material and held to said base member thereby.

3. A toy of the character substantially as described, comprising a base member in the form of a shallow receptacle, soft plastic material of a tacky nature contained therein, and objects removably maintained on said base member by said plastic material.

4. In toys and the like, a support having an exposed layer of material of an approximately-maintained tacky-like nature capable of holding toys or other representations in display positions by the engagement of their edges with said material.

5. In toys and the like, a support having a layer of material of a tacky-like nature capable of holding objects of sheet material in display position by their engagement with said material, and objects of sheet material adapted to have edge portions thereof pressed to said material and to be thereby held in display positions.

6. In toys and the like, a base, plastic material adapted to be applied to said base, said material being of an approximately- Inaintained tacky like nature capable of holding representations in display positions by the engagement of edge portions thereof With said material, and representations adapted to be applied to said material and to be held thereby grouped on said base in display positions.

7. In toys and the like, a base having stops to removably support a relativelyheavy back-ground sheet in upright position, soft plastic material adapted to be applied to the top surface of said base in front of said background sheet and capable of holding relatively light sheet-like representations in upright positions by the engagement of edge portions thereof With said material, and relatively-light objects adapted to be grouped in front of said background and to be held in display positions by their engagement With said material. 7

Dated this 4th day of September 1916. EDWIN TEARLE CALDICOTT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

